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Barnaby the capybara crashes Val the penguin's romantic Antarctic birthday date with Steve the otter, accidentally warping them all back to a warm, firefly-lit Cretaceous jungle—turning a ruined evening into a perfect prehistoric getaway

My dearest Sir or Madam – Good society is not exempt from the ubiquitous underbelly of forks and cakes, though I confess I never expected to be so entirely undone by it. Nor by Oliver Fitzgibbon. Fair Oliver! Two years my senior and newly come to town – handsome, observant and possessed, I think, of the same gentle temper as myself. Yet in a world that demands discretion, I fear my admiration may prove a dangerous indulgence. With best wishes, I remain, &c., &c. – Timothy.

Two enemies wake in the ashes of Jerusalem—one a deserter drowning in guilt, the other an amnesiac who remembers only how to kill. Hunted across the desert by a vengeful lord, they must disguise themselves as a Crusader knight and his squire to survive. But in the war-torn port of Jaffa, masks slip. Secrets surface. And a feral German street rat with a talent for trouble forces them to confront an impossible question: in a holy war that devours everything, can two broken boys build a family from the ruins?

Time-traveler Barnaby uses a silver fork and a piece of rutabaga to stop a rogue inventor's machine, stabilizing a frayed timeline that had displaced a penguin and a waistcoat-wearing otter into the wrong centuries

Things get even more dangerous than ever for Malik and his friends in the second book of the Hazardous series. Get ready for new characters, new fights, and new places.

Special kudos to my off site beta reader, Hilary. She's amazing.

Prompt #265

Write a story that begins with a phone call at three in the morning.

Trevor insisted the house phone be on his side of the bed. There was one problem with that; Trevor was nearly impossible to wake up. One night, the phone rings at three AM. Julius has a hard time waking Trevor, but finally succeeds. Trevor finally answers the phone on the ninth ring. The phone call starts something they never could have expected.